Alone in the Dark

Name: Alone in the Dark
Director: Jack Sholder
Released: 1982

Synopsis

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

75
Boston Globe
A surprisingly effective slice-and-dice cheapie; cool, controlled direction by Jack Sholder, who also wrote the script. [31 Oct 2012, p.G27]
70
The New York Times
Unobjectionable even when it doesn't work, and certainly amusing when it does.
60
Time Out
There's a sharp sense of humour at work in this school-of-Carpenter siege movie, even if, for all its ironic observations on madness in American society, it never cuts free of genre routine.
50
TV Guide Magazine
This black sense of humor, combined with the playful performances of its excellent cast (especially Donald Pleasance, as the head of the asylum), raises Alone In The Dark a cut above the average maniacs-on-the-loose entry.